ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

CONTENTS

Introduction 2No Original Sources Exists of Any Version of the Bibles 4The Truth Must be Revealed 5‘The Holy Bible’ 6Origination of the Name ‘Christian’ 7Birth of the Jewish Nation and who are the Jews? 9Who was Constantine ? 10 Jewish Rejection of the Trinity (3-in One) 18History of the Vulgate 27First Catholic Bible 28Textual Criticism 30Authors of the New Testament 33Photocopies from Original Catholic Bibles and Dictionaries-Authorised by Two Different Popes-

Pope Paul VI (1965)and Pope John XXXIII (1959)

39Verses From the Bible 48Who are the Authors of the Bible? 51

I seek the assistance of Allâh

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, the Beneficent Creator the MercifulBounty Giver.

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: The name Allâh is not a combination of two words as some ignorant people think:“al-Ilah or Allāh, lit. ‘The God’ see Islamic Sciences by S. Waqae Ahmed Husaini 2002Goodword Books page 1.

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: The common translation does not convey the correct meaning.

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“Then Woe To Those Who Write, The Book With Their OwnHands, And Then Say: This Is From God,” To Traffic With It For AMiserable Price!”…

Al-Qur’ân Chapter 2: verse 79

“Most Certainly Knowledge Is The Cure For Ignorance”! {

Hadith

}ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE, (OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS)THROUGH HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE VATICANCHURCH AND OTHER VERIFIED SOURCES.INTRODUCTION

Muslims believe

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that the Glorious Arabic

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Qur’ân is theOriginal verbatim words of Allah

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revealed to the ProphetMuhammed (pbuh) through the Mala’ikah

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Jibraeel (pbuh)(Gabriel) more than 1,425 years ago. In the Glorious Qur’ânAllah has promised:

“Surely We (Allâh)

have revealed the Reminder (al-Qur’ân) and surely We (Allâh) are its Guardian.”

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Belief for a Muslim is not the blind belief that Christians have. Muslims’ belief isthrough investigation and understanding as the Qur’ân demands this.

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“This is Arabic language, pure and clear” (Al-Qur’ân 16: 103) “Indeed, there hascome to you from Allâh, a Light and a clear Book.” (Al-Qur’ân 5:15) “These are theverses of revelation, of a Qur’ân makes things clear.” (Al-Qur’ân 15:1) “Therein (inthe Qur’ân) is made clear every affair full of wisdom.” (Al-Qur’ân 44:4) And theQur’ânic teachings being in Arabic are called: “These are the verses of the Book thatmakes (things) clear.” (Al-Qur’ân 26:2) “We have made the Qur’ân easy in thy tongue(Arabic) that they may be mindful.” (Al-Qur’ân 44:58) “And certainly We have madethe Qur’ân easy to remember, but is there any one who will mind?” (Al-Qur’ân 54:40)

It is

IMPORTANT

to mention that every word of the Arabic language has a vast numberof meanings.

Even the Arabic letter ‘

waw’

– a one letter word- which is commonly translatedas ‘and’ has many meanings. A few of the meanings are:

‘together with’, ‘by’ ‘and’

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Referto Lane’s Lexicon for more. Another point to note is that every language has someArabic words in them, and that is why Arabic is the Mother of all Languages.

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Allah is the proper name of the Creator of everything that exists, seen and unseen

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Malâ’ikah

-the

medium

with which Allâh communicates and interacts with humanbeings

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: Al-Qur’ân 15:9.

This verse should always be kept in mind, as it makes it clear that Allah is the Guardian of the Glorious Arabic Qur’ân.

Take the example- that if all thewritten copies of the Glorious Arabic Qur’ân were to be destroyed from the face of thisearth, yet the Qur’ân will be preserved! How? By the memorization in the minds ofpeople as is the case since it was revealed to the Prophet. There have been thousands

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Particularly strong critics of Islam like Sir. William Muir and othershave stated unequivocally that the Qur’ân is preserved authentically asit was revealed to Prophet Muhammed more than 1,425 years ago!Also, the many challenges contained in the Glorious Qur’ân todisprove its claim of being a divinely revealed Book have never beenmet by friend or foe alike! The challenges are there even today, andanyone who wishes to disprove the Glorious Qur’ân can yet do so inthis day and age.

Mr. Sulaiman Ebrahim’s investigation into the Bible’sHistory

The above verses of the Glorious Qur’ân made it obligatory on Mr.Sulaiman Ebrahim, who has studied the Qur’ân and the Bible over thelast

five decades

to undertake a detailed study of the compilation ofthe Bible (OT & NT). His discoveries are

summarized

in this booklet todetermine the truth of the claims of the Christians that the Bible is theWord of God in the light of the Qur’ânic statement that the Bible is aforged book written by the hands of men!In hundreds of discussions that Mr. S. Ebrahim

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has had over the lastfour decades with Christian Theologians, Academics, Missionaries

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that have memorized the Qur’ân during the life time of the Prophet, and since then(1,425 years) till today it is memorized in Arabic by millions around the world of everynationality. An excellent example is of

Imam Abdulla ibn Kadi Abdus Salaam

popularly known as TAN GURU a prince from TIDORE– TRINATE ISLANDS,Indonesia- who was brought to South Africa by the Dutch as a prisoner on the 6

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April1780. The Dutch banned every religion except Christianity. He was a Hafez of theQur’ân, and from memory he taught and wrote the entire Qur’ân. The Qur’ân writtenby him is preserved by the Raqib family in Bo-Kaap Cape Town.

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The duty of conveying the message of Islam is a duty upon all Muslims as Allah warned in theGlorious Qur’

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“Say-If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates,or your kindred; the wealth that you have gained (and amassed); the commerce inwhich you fear a decline; or your dwellings in which you take delight are dearer toyou than Allah or His messenger, or the striving in His cause; then wait until Allahbrings about His decision; and Allah guides not the rebellious”. (

Q. Chap 9 v. 24)

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A recent encounter was with three Christian Missionaries {1. -Mr. Alan Profitt,(Lecturer at a Bible College in Cape Town) -2. Mr. David Foster, (Durban) & -3. Mr.David Norton (Cape Town)} on the 22

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August 2007. In this debate Mr. Ebrahimdestroyed their arguments on the authenticity of the Bible as well as of the Trinity